VietnameseDecision No. 1315/QD-TTg dated August 21, 2009 of the Prime Minister approving the Plan to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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Decision No. 1315/QD-TTg dated August 21, 2009 of the Prime Minister approving the Plan to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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| Official number: | 1315/QD-TTg | Signer: | Nguyen Tan Dung |
| Type: | Decision | Expiry date: | Updating |
| Issuing date: | 21/08/2009 | Effect status: | Known Please log in to a subscriber account to use this function. Don’t have an account? Register here |
| Fields: | Foreign affairs , Medical - Health |
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THE PRIME MINISTER --------- No. 1315/QD-TTg | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence- Freedom- Happiness ---------------- Hanoi, August 21, 2009 |
DECISION
Approving the Plan to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 14, 2005 Law on Conclusion, Accession to and Implementation of Treaties;
Pursuant to November 11, 2004, Decision No. 877/2004/QD-CTN of the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, ratifying the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;
Pursuant to the Government’s No. 12/2000/NQ-CP dated August 14, 2000, on national policies on tobacco harm prevention and control and the 2000-2010 period;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1.
To approve together with this Decision the Plan to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Article 2.
This Decision takes effect on the date of its signing.
Article 3.
Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies, chairpersons of People’s Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, heads of concerned agencies and units, and the head and members of the management board of the national program on tobacco harm prevention and control shall implement this Decision.
PRIME MINISTER (Signed and sealed) Nguyen Tan Dung |
Plan to implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(Promulgated together with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 1315/QD-TTg dated August 21, 2009)
In order to lower the morbidity and mortality rates of tobacco-related diseases, the World Health Organization initiated the formulation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (below referred to as the Framework Convention). The Framework Convention covers many areas, including manufacture, trading in and consumption of tobacco products. By July 30, 2009, 168 nations had signed the Framework Convention, 166 of which had ratified it. Vietnam was the 47th country to ratify the Framework Convention, which took effect in the country on March 17, 2005.
In this Plan, the phrase "tobacco products" means products that are manufactured entirely or partly from tobacco raw materials and processed in the forms of cigarette, cigar or tobacco shred for smoking with pipes or in other forms for smoking, chewing, sniffing or sucking.
This Plan provides contents, schedules and responsibilities of concerned agencies to locally materialize the provisions of the Framework Convention and perform the obligations and benefits of Vietnam as a party to the Framework Convention.
I. IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP
1. Measures to reduce the demand for tobacco products
a/ Prices of and taxes on tobacco products:
- From now to 2010, to devise a roadmap to tax tobacco products towards increasing taxes on and prices of tobacco products and imposing high taxes on imported tobacco products; to apply measures to set minimum prices of tobacco products and measures to reduce and closely control the sale of tobacco products at duty-free shops.
b/ Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke:
- From January 1, 2010, to prohibit smoking in classrooms, kindergartens, health establishments, libraries, cinemas, theaters, cultural centers, production workshops, indoor workplaces, places at high risk of fire or explosion and on public transit vehicles. Places where smoking is banned must have no-smoking signs or symbols;
- In indoor public places (sports halls, roofed stadiums, exhibition centers and lounges of railway and bus stations, airports and ports), indoor leisure and recreational centers, restaurants, bars, karaoke shops, hotels and dance halls, smoking is permitted only in smoking areas. Smoking areas must have a separate ventilation system.
- To step by step complete regulations to ban smoking in public places in order to prohibit smoking in all indoor public places by 2010.
- To strictly impose sanctions on smoking in public places under the Government’s regulations on administrative sanctioning in the health domain.
c/ Disclosure of information on tobacco products:
Manufacturers and importers of tobacco products shall disclose to competent authorities on tar and nicotine amounts in tobacco products and tobacco smoke and disclose information on tar and nicotine constituents under the Ministry of Health’s regulations.
d/ Stamp sticking, packing and labeling of tobacco products:
Tobacco products circulated and traded on the domestic market must be stuck with stamps, packed, labeled and have warnings about the harmful effects of tobacco use printed in accordance with law and the Framework Convention. To print illustrated health warnings about the harmful effects of tobacco use.
e/ Measures concerning information, education and communication on tobacco harm prevention and control:
- To increase health education programs and raise public awareness about the harmful effects of the use of tobacco products and benefits of the cessation of smoking and tobacco-free lifestyles, paying special attention to the program to educate and prevent juveniles from using tobacco products;
- To implement programs to train in and raise awareness about tobacco harm prevention and control for health workers and cadres of branches and mass organizations, community workers, social and communication workers, teachers, policy makers, administrators and other concerned persons.
f/ Measures concerning tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship:
- To strictly observe the law on a comprehensive ban on advertising and promotion of tobacco products in all forms;
- To strictly observe the regulation to prohibit all forms of direct or indirect sponsorship by tobacco manufacturers or traders for activities or organizations or individuals for the purpose of advertising tobacco products or the names and images of cigarette companies;
- To coordinate with the states being parties to the Framework Convention under the coordination of the World Health Organization in formulating and signing a protocol on a comprehensive ban on cross-border advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products.
g/ Measures to support the cessation of smoking:
- To continue formulating and effectively implementing programs on the cessation of smoking. To diversify forms of cessation counseling.
- Activities to support the cessation of smoking must be incorporated into national health and education programs, plans and strategies with the participation of health, education and community workers.
- To permit the manufacture, import and use of drugs for cessation of smoking with tax incentives under current state regulations. To scientific research into and application of smoking cessation methods suitable to Vietnam’s socio-economic conditions.
- To create funds to develop services in support of cessation of smoking from the state budget, international funding and public contributions through hospital charges and health insurance.
2. Measures to reduce the supply of tobacco products on domestic sale:
a/ Measures to control trade in tobacco products:
- To adopt a plan on steps to fully realize by 2010 the provisions on cigarette distribution of the Government’s Resolution No. 12/2000/NQ-CP dated August 14, 2000, on national policies on tobacco harm prevention and control on the 2000-2010 period; to closely control cigarette distribution from wholesale to retail; to ban the sale under-20 cigarette packs.
- To strictly observe the ban on sale of tobacco products at office buildings, workplaces, schools, hospitals, on public transit vehicles and in places where smoking is banned under current regulation;
- By 2010, to complete the licensing of tobacco product traders in order to prevent illegal trading;
- By 2010, to complete the re-planning on tobacco product wholesale and retail networks nationwide, initially in big cities;
- After 2010, cigarette retail will be permitted only in places under approved planning.
- To continue measures to strictly control the import of cigarettes, to formulate a regulation to manage cigarette import and trading. Cigarettes shall be imported through state trade associated with line management. To designate key importers and prescribe quality standards and labels for imported cigarettes; to manage the domestic distribution of imported tobacco products. Imported cigarettes must be stuck with import stamps to distinguish them from domestic cigarettes.
- To increase measures to control fake cigarettes and smuggled foreign cigarettes. To increase examination and strictly handle acts of illegally importing cigarettes, trading in fake and imitation cigarettes and illegally trading in tobacco products.
-To strictly observe regulations on destruction (without allowing re-export) of all confiscated tobacco products and equipment to produce fake and imitation cigarettes, smuggled cigarettes and illegal tobacco products.
b/ Measures to prevent cigarette sale by and to juveniles:
- To strictly observe the ban on sale of cigarettes to under-18 people. To request tobacco product shops to make written commitments with management agencies not to sell tobacco products to under-18 people. To strictly sanction individuals and organizations violating the decree on administrative sanctioning in the health domain.
- To strictly observe the ban on cigarette sale via vending machines, internet and telephone.
c/ Measures to support economic development and transformation of production activities for laborers in tobacco product manufacture and trading industries:
To step by step study and formulate schemes to support economically viable alternative activities for tobacco growers and workers.
3. Environmental protection
To enhance measures to protect the environment and health of people involved in tobacco cultivation and manufacture. To relocate tobacco mills out of residential areas under state planning.
4. Scientific and technical cooperation and information
a/ Research, surveillance and exchange of information
- To formulate plans on scientific research and evaluation towards establishing an effective surveillance system in order to determine rates of consumption and use of tobacco products in the community and consequences of tobacco product use and exposure to tobacco smoke.
- To conduct independent evaluations or integrate tobacco product control programs into surveys on people’s living standards, national health control programs or other evaluation programs related to cigarette manufacture trading and use.
b/ Reporting and exchange of information
To make regular reports as required by the Conference of the Parties on implementation of the Framework Convention.
c/ International cooperation
To cooperate with the World Health Organization and other international organizations in science, techniques, law and expertise to enhance capacity to implement the Framework Convention.
5. Funding sources for tobacco control activities
a/ Funds for tobacco control activities to implement the Framework Convention shall be raised from the following sources:
- State budget funds.
- Funds from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals.
- Fines on administrative violations of regulations on cigarette manufacture, trading and use.
b/ To establish the Fund for prevention and control of tobacco harms and public health improvement.
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